Is President Obama going the right way about creating common ground between America and Islam? Peter Westmore reports. In his historic address at Cairo University, US President Barack Obama declared that he wanted to create common ground between America and Islam. He stated that “Islam has always been a part of America’s story”, citing Morocco’s…
Abroad, Obama delivers high-profile speeches. But at home his administration is presiding over an economic disaster. Daniel Greenfield reports. In the sixth month of his presidency, Obama has turned an economic downturn into an economic disaster, taking over and trashing entire companies, and driving the nation deep into deficit spending expected to pass US$10,000 billion.…
East Timor is, surprisingly, emerging as one of the success stories of the 21st century, writes Peter Westmore. Two years after East Timor’s first national election, in which the Marxist Fretilin Government was decisively defeated, the country’s parliament has undertaken a series of major initiatives which will lay the foundations for a future based on…
Some scientists and thinkers are prepared to use the latest advances in neuroscience as a justification to deny the existenceof the human mind, consciousness and soul. Bill Muehlenberg warns that this misguided thinking, if left unchallenged, will inevitably lead to a dehumanised world. The march of science and the outworking of Enlightenment thinking have been…